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Following the leak of IRS documents that shed additional light on the prevalence of tax dodging among the wealthiest Americans, a group of House Democrats on Thursday said President Joe Biden must swiftly appoint a new Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division if he hopes to crack down on unlawful evasion tactics. In a letter to Biden, the lawmakers note that it has been more than seven years since there was a Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General of the Tax Division at the Justice Department—a leadership void that, according to Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), is "helping let milli...

The US and the rest of the world have to be prepared to live with the winner. They had better start planning how they are going to do that. Fourth of July marked U.S. Independence Day and it was ironic that at the beginning of the holiday weekend, on July 2, American troops slunk out of the massive Bagram air base in Afghanistan which they had occupied for twenty years. Concurrently, President Biden had a media conference at which he was asked "Are you worried that the Afghan government might fall? I mean, we are hearing about how the Taliban is taking more and more districts." 

Illustration by The Chronicle A major burden for students and colleges alike has been lifted, at least for one year. The U.S. Department of Education announced on Tuesday that it will waive verification requirements for most of the information that federal-aid applicants must provide during the 2021-22 enrollment cycle. The change, intended to ease the challenges students and institutions are experiencing because of the pandemic, means that fewer low-income students will have to provide additional proof that their financial information is accurate. In a July 13 “Dear Colleague” letter de...

Why Justice Stephen Breyer is causing so much political agita Common sense suggests Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has every reason to retire. He doesn't appear to care. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer testifies on Capitol Hill, March 21, 2015.Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP file May 21, 2021, 5:05 PM UTC BySteve Benen Around this time seven years ago, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was well aware of the chatter in Democratic circles about her possible retirement. She was 81 at the time; she'd gone through two bouts with cancer; and she had a heart condition. There was a Democratic majority in the S...

Yesterday was the fifth time Rand Paul tried to quarrel with Anthony Fauci. If the senator thinks the exchanges have gone well for him, he's mistaken.